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Independent from Long Beach, California • 1

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Independenti
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rn ivy WEATHER GIANTS RIP DODGERS; ANGELS STREAK AT 6 Story on frige B-l 1 1 7 I .1 Mostly sunny after early morning tow-cloud high about Ml Complete weather, Page A-8. Phone HE 6.1 141 Cbmfied No. HE 2-6959 32 PAGES LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA 90801, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1966 VOL 28 -NO. 252 -o HOME EDITION Ida Blood Flows in --i Strike Off for Social fratf Workers Hundreds of Rioters Arrested SAIGON, Saturday. howling mob -of- about -150 persons killed a Vietnamese policeman with his own gun today in the sixth day of anti- government disorders In Saigon.

A police source 'said the rioters then grabbed a second policeman, beat him and dragged him breeding into the compound of the Buddhist Institute. His fate was not known. Riot troops moved In. to i AKSLCONVINCED JffiS THEIR S0Nr ifsuBukiw 2-Year-Old From Orphanagefo'NewJersey police, and -search -party members who cornered the pachyderm. The other wandering anunal was caught behind the Stone Park police station.

ipedFri-suburb of forest preserve by Elepnant Hunt Livens Up Quietness of- Illinois Veldt through a forest preserve in Schiller Park ami was chuood to two trees. But foe pachydrama had Its moments.1' Barbara crumpled the door of a car owned by' John Mallen, 26, of Cicero. Ive got to find foe owner of that foing before I turn a report in to my insurance company," he said with a moan. They Just wont believe it Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Schauer were in bed in their Franklin Park -home when they were awakened by the shaking of their, house. One of the 9-foot-, tall elephants was trying to push itv way through a 27-. inch spare "between the Schauer house and the family car. The. elephant made it but foe family car will never be i the same.

-T" Newsmen joined in foe elephant posse. One fell into foe Des Plaines River trying to get out. of the elephant path, and one ani mal gavfc. chase-to a puff- ing photographer who fl njilly gofoafray. The elephants would run a while, then stop to munch grass.

Handlere finally got Kay into the van and drove the vehicle to where Barbara was tethered. Barbara saw foe van and bolted, ran up a 25-foot embankment stepped over a guard rail and into vehicle. And foe elephants, who. had performed at a circus in Franklin Park Thursday night, were on their way to their But only after Kay thoroughly greeted her handler with an affectionate shower from her trunk. FRANKLIN PARK, '111.

WI Youre going to think Im drunk a man cm the telephone told Police. Sgt Alfx Hermann early Friday "WdL now that depends," Hermann responded. An elephant Just ran through, my backyard, the caller said. "Perhaps, sir, you were right the first time, said the sergeant But soon Sgt Hermann was among 50 policemen chasing' two 3-ton elephants, nfrhich unfortunately, ran in different, direc- Atkins in. suburbs northwest of Chicago.

The great elephant chase started at OHare International Airport when foe ani-. mals, Kay, 18, andjarbaru, 19, were being totaled Into a van of the Keey Miller Brothers. Circus of Hugo, jDkkC; The llejfoargts. broke from their trainers when a Jet airliner zoomed overhead. Kay was eventually caught and chained to a utility pole in.

Stone Park. After showing much, early foot, Barbara was tracked' ted'agltation v' to overthrow the military gov-. eminent of Premier Nptyen although no robed -monks'were seen' among the. rioters. mob as in one of foe worst tempers- yet IN HUE, the northern spawning ground of foe spring revolt, the government continued Its crackdown on Buddhist-led dissidents with a declaration Of martial law.

Government planes were reported to have strafed: a rebellious column, of South Vi4t Nams 1st Division Friday. outride foe old imperial caplfaL The government; security force In Hue swelled 2,500 with the arrival of 500 more South Vietnamese marines. More than 500 per- sons. Including 12 Buddhist monks, were reported arrested. In another move to' shore up its position, Kys government-devalued the piaster, T.

wt the new rate appeared to be far Short of blade market prices. Hit by a 55 increaae in the-cost-of living the-past -year, foe government announced the new rate would be 80 piasters to the dollar, compared with 35 piasters before; PURSUING A emotional canqpaign: A 16-yearwld Dto Thi Tuyet, set herself aflame in the Buddhist Institute compound to emulate nine Buddhists whq. committed suicide by fire'ln late May and early died six hours later. A mob burned three American vehicles a UR. Embassy jeep and two pickup tracks.

-About lOO mooks offered foemsetvty for arrest in a pas- sive resistance movement because foe ruliqg generals ignored a recent demand from the institute that they Asign. Prison; officials, after telephone consultation, with foe government, arrested those of draft age and dispersed the rest with tear gas. In Qui Nhon, about 2,000 Buddhists marched through the streets, proclaiming a fight until the end against the government. Aerial campaigning dominated war developments! a qrcus Park, is led 12 in Ship Disaster NEW YORK CPI Twelve seamen still were missing Friday after a. fiery New York Harbor collision that sent two tankers and two tugboats bp In 'naphtha -fed flames.

The Coast Guard listed known dead at 20. Seventy-one survivors were accounted 'for in the ports worst disaster in six years, apparently caused by a mixup in ship signals. THE PORT of New York Authority said that last month it asked Congress for money to widen the narrow entrance to; Newark Bay, where foe British tanker Alvr Cape and the American tanker Texafo Massachusetts collided in good weather Thursday. The tugs were escorting the vessels. Austin J.

Tobin, Port Authority executive director, said the funds -were sought -to widep the main Newark Bay ship channel and dredge foe area where it joins foe Kill Van Kull between Staten Island and NewJersey.He added: The Texaco tanker 'involved in Thursday's collision had backed out into foe chan- (Continued Page A-4, Col. 1) rM, WHEN IT Ing flu body and By DON BRACKENBURY UT-T UiaMMmkw. it Union social workers have voted overwhelmingly to end their strike against Los An-, County, and will return to work Monday. The vote to end the strike was 838 to 180, a spokesman for. Social Workers Union Load 538 said Friday afternoon.

The strike -is over as pf right now, but not the fight declared Tony.Garave.nte, union strike chairman. Garavsnte uegotiafiom-of an agree ment covering working conditions and case loads for county social Workers. MORE THAN LT00 social workers, Virtually all of them reau of Public Assistance, had been on strike since May .31. Garavente called the agreement definitely a victory foQthe union, and said Jt had Obtained: its three major strike goals. These, he said, were the 11 raise, a guarantee -there would be no reprisals against strikers, and a written agree: ment Codnty supervisors actually have not yet approved the 11 raise for social workers, but three members of thfc five-man board said last Tuesday they would vote for the increase as soon -as foe strikers returned to work.

A COUNTY fiscal expert said the 11 increase would cost a total of about $2.6 million, but only about 000 must come from county funds. About 70 of the money comes from state and federal subventions. A total of more than 3,800 social workers in various categories, such as medical sociak workers and psychiatric social workers, will be eligible for the raise. The strike, however, primarily involved only foe union members who are employed by the Bureau of Public Assistance. Despite the overwhelming vote by strikers to go back to work, there still sharp difference of opinion on one phase of the agreement.

GARAVENTE. said foe union considers Superintendent of Charities A Barrs offer to reduce to writing agreenients between couhty-and social Workers as a consent ty foe county' to negotiate' with the union as the sole bargaining agent for foe social workers. The county counsel's office, however; has ruled that supervisors have no legal pqwer to enter into collec- (Continued Page A-4, Col. 6) BULLETIN An unidentified youth was struck jind killed by a monorail train at Disiuty land. In Anaheim Friday night after climbing atop foe trestle whichholda the tew.

A park spokesman said the youth, about 19 years okL- scaled foe. 16-foot fence bordering Harbor Boulevard, and then ascended, onto the monorail traqk. A Disneyland guard, Theodora J. Thomas, saw the train approaching and shouted a warning at, the youth. The fast-moring train struck the victhd and all four cars passed the body.

BABY. FRONCZAK, Picture Taken In Chicago Fronczaks Ask Quiet WeirdzDrama of Death I Plunge at Sea Probed 37. HOURS OLD. Hospital 2 Years Ago the only One of 10,000 investigated whom foe FBI not rule out as the Fronczak child. Edward T.

Weaver, regional director of the Illinois -Department of Childreh and Family by proper authorities are continuing but that there are-, no doubts in' foe minds of foe Fronczaks that they have been reunlted with son. SHE HAS no doubts in her said oflMrs. Fronczak. only doubts are in the minds of foe police and some other authorities. is going' to treat this boy as the very baby taken from her.

Tittle revealed that on July 19, 1965, just 17 days after the boy fumed up in Newark, investigators quietly started (Continued Page A4. Col. 2) feminine LOGIC COMES to fight-. bugs, the human foe medical professions are both flops. CHICAGO (UPI) Chester and Dora Fronczak appealed Friday to be left alone in the privacy of their -home while they get acquainted with the sandy-haired youngster they believe was stolen from Mrs.

Fronczak in a maternity ward two years ago. Through their attorneys and a state social service official, the Fronczaks asked that they and the New Jersey foundling they era adopting be given an to adjust-Without -disturbance- by newsmen, friends. neighbors and INVESTIGATORS said intensive detective work and the best brains of medical science may. never be able 4o determine whether the 2-year-old boy is the baby who was kidnaped from Michael Reese Hospital when he was one day old. But the long-grieving parents.

were convinced the boy abandoned in -a NJ. variety store, is their, own! Paul-Joseph; 4 Attorney Vernon Tittle told a news, conference that foe child placed in the. hands of the Frpnczaks Thursday -'was 39 Million in Tax (Atr-tA total of a highway user tax revenue was distrib-uted among California cities, counties and state departments during May, State Son- trailer Alan Cranston said. ThovCoast Guard Friday began. an investigation into the eerie death of the skipper of a small stoop vfoojfent berserk and.

jumped overboard while en route, to- Honolulu from Newport Beach. If said it haajteunched an active investigation to determine why33-year-bld Leo Woyshner.of Newport Reach, refused rescue after jumping overboard Tuesday about 250 miles northeast pf Honolulu. The Federal Bureau ol Inves-tigation, merchant marine au-foorities and Honolulu police also are conducting investigations: Navy Transport Crash Kills 12 MOUNTAINV1EW UPLA naval air transport plime based at neariby Moffett Field crashed into the China Sea Thursday night, killing fou mUitiutyPUMmgos, the Navy, announced Friday The C130 Hercules crashed 20 minutes after takeoff from Cam Ranh Bay in South Viet Nam, bound 'for Okinawa and Moffett. Field, after a cargo Moffett officials jsaidnone of foe- victims from 'Southern California. Edward K.

Gray, 24, of Australia, one member of the two-man crew.told investigators foe weird drama started to' unfold' Monday morning when he. and foe other, crew member. William F. 29, of La Grange, found Woyshner near the last, GRAY SAID' they revived Woyshner, who appeared to be all right until Monday afternoon when he locked himself, Jarrell and Gray out of the small cabin, forcing than to stay on deck, throughout the rainy night On Tuesday, Gray said, Woyshner just stared aifoe sun ahd about noon he began to rave, yelling Biblical quotations for about an hour, then he went to sleep. Later -IhatJtemoan, while Graiyandj Jarrell, watched from thedeck, Woyshner climbed the rigging, slid down foe.

shrouds and jumped Into life ring to Woyshner three times, once hitting him on the shoulder. Woyshner did not reach-for It. Gray told he then swam out in an attempt to reach Woyshnef? but Gray and Jarrell reported they tried to keep the sloop dose to the skipper, but he disappeared after it became dark. wmxmmmm -JEAN FLYNN- 1 by Humphrey Limousine Hit WITNESS DESCRIBES "tolling Ku Klux Klan mefflbers. Page A-8.

by Stone, Tice Boys Seised'; TAX BOOST IS STILL open question. Commerce Secretary Fonder tells Virginia bankers. Page A-8. -sr STOCK MARKET mildly off in dull trading session ks potential 'rally cut short by; news from U-S. Treasury that tax increase is still an open question.

Page C-2. 1 i 4 1 WASHINGTON -UPi r- A a car behind the. vice, flfhe Hubert pumphrey was the hit by a stone thrown near his suburban home early Friday A Secret Service agent The my qfoerpersraa, who chail oaight two io. nearby Uy was slightly injured in scuf-; Qr SeretoeagenL-. fling with thent Tim ipokes- agent who caught the mah'dld not say what will i juveniles had been riding in be done about the two boys.

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